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Time's running out! Up to December 10, 2013, you can nominate or vote online for candidates for the Roland Berger Human Dignity Award 2014. We are delighted that over 60,000 people have already cast their votes!

Rafael Marques de Morais is an Angolan journalist and human rights activist, who fights for freedom of expression and human rights in Angola, especially in the Luanda provinces. He is also the founder of Maka Angola, an initiative dedicated to fighting for democracy and against corruption in Angola.

UPDATE: The summit meeting on refugee policy of the European heads of state in Brussels at the end of October resulted in no concrete changes or conclusion on the topic. In the meantime, another 800 refugees arrived in Lampedusa and Sicily.

Jim Kennedy is a shelter consultant with ten years experience in disaster and conflict related responses in shelter and reconstruction. Before starting to work in the field, he did research in the area of world heritage, worked for an architecture firm and received a Masters degree in human settlements. His thesis was on the design and construction of refugee camps. He has not only worked in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, but in many other regions and countries.

Jim Kennedy speaks on communicating without words, his personal experiences he has gathered over the past ten years, funding appeals and having a sense of humour.

"Domestic violence issues are neglected and overlooked because they are considered a private issue," says Monira Rahman when asked about the situation of women in Bangladesh. She has made it her prerogative to stop domestic violence and to help women who are victims. But Monira Rahman does not simply focus on any domestic violence – she helps care for and support the victims of acid attacks, which are a common and widespread way of humiliating and hurting women and their families in Bangladesh.

Mathilde Muhindo has dedicated her life to the fight against the discrimination of women and sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She is the director of the Olame Centre in the province of South Kivu, which has been promoting women´s rights and the empowerment of women for more than 50 years.

On April 16 in Berlin, the Roland Berger Foundation presented the Roland Berger Human Dignity Award for the fith time in a row. The Award went to the Indian NGO Jagori, to the Pakistani lawyer and human rights activist Dr. Asma Jahangir and to the Afghan Women's Network. The Roland Berger Foundation visited the award winners in their home countries.

Munich/Berlin, April 16, 2013: President of the German Bundestag, Dr. Norbert Lammert, opened the fifth ceremony for the Roland Berger Human Dignity Award with a speech on human dignity and human rights. His speech was followed by a panel discussion on women's rights in a globalized world. The high-caliber panel included Christine Lüders, Director of the Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency, and Tom Koenigs, the Chairman of the Bundestag Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid.

The Jewish Museum Berlin is the largest Jewish museum in Europe and a central point for remembering, discussing, researching and integrating Jewish-German life. It documents over 2,000 years of German-Jewish history, and has welcomed more than seven million visitors since it opened in 2001. The spectacular postmodern buildings by American architect Daniel Libeskind have also contributed to the museum's success. Its mission is to enlighten visitors about anti-Semitism and intolerance.

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„Asylum is a human right. Solidarity, empathy and humanity belong to a multicultural and open-hearted Europe“, this message is spread by Amnesty International and many other organisations – the Roland Berger Foundation supports the campaign as well. Until now more than 12.700 people have signed the campaign. They all want to show their solidarity with the refugees who are seeking protection in Europe right now: „It is time to stand up for human rights in Europe.“ http://www.europa-der-menschenrechte.org/

Amnesty for Mazen Darwish

The Recipient of the Roland Berger Human Dignity Award 2011 and founder of the Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM), Mazen Darwish, is covered by a political amnesty. This decision was made by an anti-terrorism court in Damascus on Monday, 31 August. Darwish had been granted a provisional release on 10 August. The Syrian journalist spent over three years in arbitrary detention after being arrested alongside a number of other colleagues during a raid on the office of the SCM by Air Force Intelligence personnel in Damascus in February 2012. Mazen and his colleagues were facing up to 15 years in prison under article 8 of the 2012 anti-terrorism law on a charge of “publishing information about terrorists acts.”

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) released its 2015 Hunger Report: “About 795 million people are undernourished globally, down 167 million over the last decade, and 216 million less than in 1990–92.” http://www.fao.org/hunger/en/

“Let’s help refugees thrive, not just survive.” A very interesting talk by UNHCR spokesperson Melissa Fleming: http://bit.ly/1rTOT5M